Integrating Trade and Decent Work

The ILO research programme “Integrating trade and decent work” (INTEGRATE) is a multi-donor partnership that follows a more human-centred approach, which means treating decent work as a central objective of trade policy, as called for in the ILO Centenary Declaration for the Future of Work (2019).
The ILO has launched a new global database on labour provisions in trade agreements, paving the way for a more human-centred approach to trade policy.

Access the LP Hub HERE.
Two new publications created to pave the way for a more comprehensive and realistic analysis of the effects of trade on labour markets, based on a human-centred approach

Link to press release HERE.
Joint ILO-WTO Webinar on Gender, trade and labour market outcomes in Covid times.

INTEGRATE comprises three interdependent, but separate areas:

Assessing the distributional effects of trade on the labour market using decent work indicators (under the ASSESS project);
Supporting sustainable development through the alignment of trade policies and domestic labour market institutions so as to reduce inequalities, and gaps in social protection and poverty (under the SUPPORT project);
Implementing activities to bridge capacity gaps and support policymakers and the social partners in engaging more effectively in dialogue on trade and labour market policies (under the IMPLEMENT project (forthcoming)).

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